How to stop Firefox demanding authentication for each page of the same website (IE does not do this for the same site))

Question

I have a website (Still being developed but at the testing stage) which works fine in IE but when viewed in Firefox It insists on authentication at every page, instead of just one login it repeats the login at every page.

Answer 1

Hi,
If it's Basic auth, please check if this happens in a [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles new profile]. If it's okay, you can later [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile?s=profile&r=1&e=sph&as=s copy the needed personal data] from the old profile. Firefox stores your personal data and settings in another location separate from its [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installation_directory files/folder]. A new profile would have the default Firefox settings ('''Tools''' ('''Alt''' + '''T''') > [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Options%20window '''Options'''], and [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config] ), and usually would also be empty of any '''Extensions''' and themes ('''Appearance''') in Tools > Add-ons) and their settings. Also, a new profile would have no previous stored website data/settings etc., ('''Tools''' > [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Clear%20Recent%20History '''Clear Recent History''']).
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Profiles?s=profile&r=2&e=sph&as=s Profiles Howto]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Profile Folder & Files]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]
For NTLM authentication, you can try to automatically trust the domain in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris] list in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config], eg. domain.com
Not sure, but for Kerberos, I think you would have to use '''network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris''' instead.